DAGADANA - Kangding Love Song ( Kangding Qingge / )

Chinese traditional song in interpretation of Polish-Ukrainian world music band. The Kangding Love Song was born in the 1930s in the Tibetan town Dardo (Chinese: Kangdin, Sichuan). The town is situated where the cultures of Tibet and China meet. It is divided by the mighty Dadu River and surrounded by over 50 majestic Himalayan mountain peaks, reaching six thousand metres above sea level.
The song presents the simple story of a love which is not accepted by the girls parents because of the gap in status between the lovers. According to legend, a local singer agreed to help the young couple by composing a piece to persuade the parents to change their minds.

According to UNESCO the Kangding Love Song is one of the ten most popular folk songs in the world. In the 1990s it also became the first Chinese music recording sent out with a NASA probe in search of extraterrestrial civilisations. The song has been performed by the greatest artists, including Placido Domingo: 2011, under the title Love Song for the Universe.


Dominika Dyka is the soul behind the stylisation for the videoclip to Kangding Love Song and an artist whose works are currently storming the web. In her art Dyka pays great attention to the beauty and richness of Ukrainian folk culture.


Slava Salyuk, a legendary Ukrainian jeweler, created the jewelry using coral beads, old coins and cross pendants.
The band members are wearing historical costumes from Dawnij Narodnyj Odiag shop in Lviv, a place which collects traditional garments from various corners of Ukraine and traditional coats from Częstochowa Region in Poland.

The main theme of the whole session was the meeting of various cultures - some of them very close to each other, like Polish and Ukrainian, some very distant and exotic, like the Chinese one which has mesmerised the band musicians during their concert tour in Asia.
DAGADANA have been playing together for nine years. Since the very beginning their philosophy has been meeting and sharing art and music with artists from various corners of our planet, as well as being the ambassadors of Polish and Ukrainian culture. The band has already played in 22 countries!
Two operators from Poland and Ukraine were invited to join the works. The whole project was looked after by Visual Heads Company from Poznań and their film director, Artur Przybylski.
Meridian 68, the album recorded in Poland and China together with guest stars from Beijing, Inner Mongolia and Poland, was nominated for Fryderyk Award. It was also the best reviewed Polish album in World Music Charts Europe - a yearly ranking of the best world music albums selected by radio music journalists from whole Europe.
DAGADANA signed a record contract with a Chinese record company 13th Month, as well as with one of the most important European record companies - Jaro Medien (publisher of such stars of the genre as Bulgarian Voices Angelite, Hazmat Modine, Hun-Huur-tu or Warsaw Village Band).

High upon the mountain side, floats a cloud so white.
There lies Kangding town, bathed in silver moonlight.
Moonlight shines bright, over Kangding town.
Lovely maid with a sweet smile, Li the woodcutters daughter.
Zhang the blacksmiths eldest son, came to court her in moonlight.
Moonlight shines bright, a courtship in moonlight.

First, he has fallen in love because she is talented and good-looking.
Second, he has fallen in love because she can take care of the family.
The crescent moon, can take care of the family!

Lovely maidens of the world, I cannot but love you.
Gentlemen of the world, they cannot but woo you.
Moonlight shines bright, they cannot but woo you.




























DAGADANA Band:
Daga Gregorowicz - vocal, electronics
Dana Vynnytska - vocal, keyboards
Mikołaj Pospieszalski - double bass
Bartosz Mikolaj Nazaruk - drums

Music arrangement: DAGADANA
Lyrics: Traditional
Directed by: Artur Przybylski
DOP: Artur Przybylski, Maryan Borovets
Production: Visual Heads
Producer: DAGADANA, NRA Service
Postproduction, Colour correction: Artur Przybylski
Set designer: Dominika Dyka (Treti Pivni)
Stylist: Dominika Dyka (Treti Pivni)
Stylist Assistant: Magdalena Wojciechowska (Biskupianki w Podróży)
Makeup: Lesja Buk
Stagehand: Anna Nazaruk, Olya Kravchenko
Studio: Art Studio Passage
Supported by: Stoart - Związek Artystów Wykonawców, Culture.pl